Configure Inheritance and Group Memberships

Introduction

Welcome to the Configure Inheritance and Group Memberships Practice Lab. In this module you will be provided with the instructions and devices needed to develop your hands-on skills.

Learning Outcomes

In this module, you will complete the following exercises:

• Exercise 1 - Configure Inheritance and Group Memberships

After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Log into a Linux System
• Use default ACL for permission inheritance
• Copy ACL
• Archive and restore ACL

Exam Objectives

The following exam objectives are covered in this lab:

• LPI: 104.5 Manage file permissions and ownership
• CompTIA: 4.4 Given a scenario, analyse and troubleshoot application and hardware issues.

Lab Duration

It will take approximately 30 minutes to complete this lab.

Exercise 1 - Configure Inheritance and Group Memberships

Linux allows you to configure inheritance on the subdirectories and files. With the inheritance, the same set of permissions apply, and therefore, you do not have to assign permissions on each file individually.

In this exercise, you will learn to configure inheritance and group memberships.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this exercise, you will be able to:

• Log into a Linux System
• Use default ACL for permission inheritance
• Copy ACL
• Archive and restore ACL